“Receive what cheer you may. The night is long that never finds the day.”
Source: Macbeth
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William Shakespeare 699
English playwright and poet 1564–1616Related quotes
“Good days and long nights to ya, sai.”
Variant: Long days and pleasant nights.
Source: Wizard and Glass
Aeneis, Book VI, lines 192–195.
The Works of Virgil (1697)
“The gates of hell are open night and day;
Smooth the descent, and easy is the way:
But to return, and view the cheerful skies,
In this the task and mighty labor lies.”
Facilis descensus Averno<!--Averni?-->:
Noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis;
Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras,
Hoc opus, hic labor est.
Facilis descensus Averno:
Noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis;
Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras,
Hoc opus, hic labor est.
Variant translation:
: It is easy to go down into Hell;
Night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide;
But to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air—
There's the rub, the task.
Compare:
Long is the way
And hard, that out of Hell leads up to Light.
John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book II, line 432
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Lines 126–129 (as translated by John Dryden)
“To some of us, the nights are too long. To some, the days.”
Source: Haunted
“The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.”
Source: Nightwood (1936), Ch. 5 : Watchman, What of the Night?
